Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.